Sounds very strange - what OMPI version, on what type of machine, and how was it configured?

On Aug 12, 2010, at 7:49 PM, David Ronis wrote:

> I've got a mpi program that is supposed to to generate a core file if
> problems arise on any of the nodes. I tried to do this by adding a
> call to abort() to my exit routines but this doesn't work; I get no core
> file, and worse, mpirun doesn't detect that one of my nodes has
> aborted(?) and doesn't kill off the entire job, except in the trivial
> case where the number of processors I'm running on is 1. I've replaced
> abort with MPI_Abort, which kills everything off, but leaves no core
> file. Any suggestions how I can get one and still have mpi exit?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> David
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